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| Tango01 | 26 Aug 2020 8:54 p.m. PST |
…time capsule opened after Confederate monument moved in Raleigh
"In May 1894, a metal time capsule stuffed with Confederate mementos and artifacts was placed beneath the granite cornerstone of a Confederate monument being erected in Raleigh.
Inside was a button said to from a dress coat belonging to Gen. Robert E. Lee, a lock of his hair and a strand plucked from the tail of his famous horse Traveler. Among newspapers, money and souvenirs was the bullet that killed the horse of Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew, the North Carolinian officer who was severely wounded near Richmond in 1862 while riding the steed…"
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| grahambeyrout | 06 Sep 2020 4:55 a.m. PST |
Have I missed anything ?. I always understood that Lee's horse Traveller was spelt with a double L. Now I have found it spelt 3 tims in the last week with the single L on social media.
Is this just ignorance, or has the ACW world agreed to revert to normal American spelling. |
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